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Full trunks would have required porters, and porters are witnesses. A fiacre had been summoned to the door on the Rue de Babylone, and they had taken their departure. It was with difficulty that Toussaint had obtained permission to pack up a little linen and clothes and a few toilet articles. Cosette had taken only her portfolio and her blotting-book.
And this must be ever so much worse. 'Oh, that it is, said Valetta. 'I heard Mr. Poulter and Miss Vincent laughing about it like anything. 'But they get it put into print, said Mysie, still impressed. 'Miss Hacket brought it up to give to mamma, and there's ever so much of it shut up in the drawing-room blotting-book with the malachite knobs.
One, a Lady Letitia Smith, was doing a crewel silk blotting-book that made me quite bilious to look at, and she was very short-sighted, and had such an irritating habit of asking every one to match her threads for her. They knitted ties and stockings, and crocheted waistcoats and comforters and hoods for the North Sea fishermen, and one even tatted.
She brought forward blotting-book, paper, and ink, and sat down. "Now then 'An agreement entered into this sixteenth day of October' write that first." She started the pen in an elephantine march across the sheet. It was a splendid round, bold hand of her own conception, a style that would have stamped a woman as Minerva's own in more recent days.
Cytherea went to her blotting-book, took out the long letter so carefully written, so full of gushing remarks and tender hints, and sealed up so neatly with a little seal bearing 'Good Faith' as its motto, tore the missive into fifty pieces, and threw them into the grate.
She passed me a little note asking me to get from her locker the parcel with the blotting-book for her father and the key basket for her mother and bring it to her because the things are not ready yet for Christmas. December 16th. Hella's better to-day. I've got to paint the blotting-book for her father. Thank goodness I can. She'll be able to finish the key basket herself, that's nothing.
Besides the now well-worn term, the 'upper ten thousand, he is credited with the invention of 'Japonicadom, 'come-at-able, and 'stay-at-home-ativeness. One or two of his sayings may be worth quoting, such as his request for Washington Irving's blotting-book, because it was the door-mat on which the thoughts of his last book had wiped their sandals before they went in; and his remark that to ask a literary man to write a letter after his day's work was like asking a penny-postman to take a walk in the evening for the pleasure of it.
"You returned home on June 24th last, from a visit to town?" "Yes." "At what time?" "I could not say to the minute. But about eleven in the morning." "You found letters waiting for you?" "Yes." "Anything else?" "A parcel." "What did it contain?" "A blotting-book. It was a present from my son on my birthday." "Is this the blotting-book?" "Yes." "What did you do with it?"
The young scamp had probably taken the paper out of his mother's blotting-book. A moment after, returning to his adversary and giving him the note, he said in a jeering tone, "There's your note; it is awfully compromising." "Keep it, monsieur," replied the Scot.
Markham, and another to Mr. Dixon, if you will be so kind as to write and enclose them. Thank you, dear papa. She drew a blotting-book towards him, saw that there was ink and pen, and left him too much appalled at her ways to say anything. His task was less hard than the one she had set her mother. Strong excitement had carried Philip to the grave-yard as soon as he learnt what was passing.
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